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megger

megger noun: a megohmmeter.

Noun (1)

megger (plural meggers)

  1. A megohmmeter.

Noun (2)

megger (plural meggers)

  1. (slang) A film director.
    • Backers, confronted with the heavy demands of directors, point out that the megger is doing more of a job than the producer […]1948 March 6, Billboard, page 44
    • The megger, as the director is known to the motion picture industry's trade journals, has to be a sort of reservoir of knowledge, know-how, residual bits of information on all subjects and techniques.1949, Charles Reed Jones, Your Career in Motion Pictures, Radio, Television, page 180

megger meaning in Tamil

megger in Tamil

மின்காப்பளவி, மெக்கர்

Forms of megger

pluralmeggers

Origin of megger

From megaphone (which directors traditionally use) + -er.

Questions about megger

What does megger mean?
Megger means a megohmmeter.
What is megger in Tamil?
Megger in Tamil is மின்காப்பளவி, மெக்கர். See Megger meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is megger?
Megger is a noun.
What is the plural of megger?
The plural of megger is meggers.

Words near megger in the dictionary

  1. megergs
  2. megestrol
  3. Meggan
  4. megged
  5. Meggen
  6. megger
  7. meggers
  8. Meggie
  9. megging
  10. meggings
  11. Megginson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: megger (page history and authors); megger (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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